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175th Birthday for a Place of Death
This Sunday, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge will mark its 175th anniversary. A 'consecration' ceremony will kick off a year of lectures and events honoring the nation's first landscaped cemetery.
WBUR's Abigail Beshkin recently visited Mount Auburn Cemetery and has this story.
This program aired on September 21, 2006. The audio for this program is not available.